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Individual cases

(chronological)

Capital punishment in Britain.

Catherine Hayes

History of the death penalty in Britain

Complete listings of British executions

Sarah Malcolm

The history of judicial hanging in Britain

England & Wales - 1900 - 1931 & 1932 - 1964

Jenny Diver

Timeline of British capital punishment

England & Wales 1868 - 1899 & 1837 - 1868

Elizabeth Harrard

English hangmen 1850 - 1964 Earlier hangmen

England & Wales 1800 - 1827 & 1828 -1836

Mary Blandy

Abolition of capital punishment in Britain

England & Wales 1735 – 1799 by circuit

Elizabeth Jeffries

The reprieve system  The end of public hangings

Scotland 1800 -1899 & 1900 - 1963

Earl Ferrers

Insanity and the death penalty

Northern Ireland 1900 -1961

Elizabeth Brownrigg

Royal Commission Reports 1886 & 1953

Southern Irish executions 1900 - 1954 & 1835 - 1899

Mary Jones

Arguments for and against capital punishment (UK)

Channel Islands and Isle of Man executions

Ann Beddingfield

Thoughts on crime and punishment

The female hanged 1800 - 1868 & 1868 - 1955

Charlotte Gardiner

Thoughts on Human Rights

The female executed 1735 - 1799

Elizabeth Taylor

Executions of children, juveniles & teenage girls

Executions at the Tower of London

Phoebe Harris

The 18th & 19th century UK index page

Sarah Lloyd

 

Ann Hurle

The death penalty in the USA.

Elizabeth Godfrey

Hanged by the neck until you are dead!

Billy Bailey

Edith Morrey

Lethal Injection with specific cases opposite

Velma Barfeld, Karla Faye Tucker, Christina Riggs

Eliza Fenning

The electric chair with specific cases opposite

Toni Jo Henry, Nicholas Ingram & Judi Buenoano

Elizabeth Fricker

The gas chamber with specific cases opposite

Barbara Graham & Robert Alton Harris

Melinda Mapson

Firing squad – Gilmore, Taylor & Gardner

US executions updated monthly

Mary Bateman

The American female hanged

Arguments for and against the death penalty (USA)

Infanticide (4 cases)

American female executions 1900 - 2011

The death penalty and deterrence in the USA

Catherine Kinrade

 

John Thurtell

Execution methods

Jane Scott

Present day and recent methods

From times gone by

Bel Mc’Menemy

The process of judicial hanging

Burning at the stake

Arsenic poisoners

Beheading

The garrote

The Stackpooles

Lethal Injection

The guillotine

Helen Blackwood

The electric chair

Hanging, drawing and quartering

Elizabeth Browne

Shooting and the firing squad

The Gallows Galleries

Maria Manning

The gas chamber

The Gallows Galleries 2

John Tawell

 

Victorian child murderers (9 cases)

Histories of some English “hanging” prisons & Places of execution

Franz Műller

York castle prison

Newgate prison 1800 - 1902

Frances Kidder

Armley prison Leeds

Pentonville prison

Thomas Wells

Wandsworth prison

Holloway prison

Alexander Mackay

Durham prison

Maidstone prison

Elizabeth Pearson

Strangeways prison (Manchester)

Shepton Mallet prison

Mary Ann Barry

Walton prison (Liverpool)

Lancaster Castle

William Horry

Gloucester prison

Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Surrey

Frances Stewart

Bodmin Gaol

Derby’s three prisons

Mary Lefley

Places of execution 18/19th centuries

Places of execution in the 20th century

Selina Wadge

 

 

Kate Webster

Capital punishment worldwide

Elizabeth Berry

Overview of the death penalty in 2012

Executions worldwide updated monthly

Louisa Jane Taylor

Female executions 2000 - 2013

Female hangings worldwide 1988 - 2013

Mary Wheeler

Abolition of the death penalty in Europe

Focus on the execution of women in Iran

Baby Farmers

Last female executions in Europe

Focus on the execution of children in Iran

Mary Ann Ansell

The situation in Commonwealth countries

Focus on executions in Kuwait updated

Louise Masset

Canadian hangings 1867 - 1962

Spanish executions 1812 - 1975

Emily Swann

Nazi female war criminals

Australian executions 1870 - 1967

The Stratton brothers

Women executed by the Nazis

 

Rhoda Willis

 

 

Edith Thompson

Some cases from around the world

Susan Newell

Irma Grese - Nazi war criminal

Mariette Bosch - Botswana

Louie Calvert

Juana Borman - Nazi war criminal

Angel Pui Peng - hanged in Singapore for drugs

Charlotte Bryant

Jean Lee - the last woman hanged in Australia

Flor Contemplacion - hanged in Singapore for murder

Dr. Buck Ruxton

Hilda Blake - the only woman hanged in Manitoba

John Scripps - hanged in Singapore for murder

Nurse Waddingham

Shahla Jahed - executed in Iran in 2010

Sandra Smith - last woman hanged in South Africa

James McNicol

Olga Hepnarová hanged in Czechoslovakia

Mona Fandey - hanged in Malaysia for murder

Derek Bentley

Elina Zlatanova - Bulgaria’s last female execution

 

Styllou Christofi

 

 

Ruth Ellis

 

 

Dennis Howard

Links, about the author and bibliography

Vivian Teed

 

 

Ronald Marwood

Links to other interesting sites

About the author and bibliography

Guenther Podola

Book reviews